GVSU Professor Patty Janes used her experience with the hospitality and tourism industries to create a nonprofit initiative that engages Michigan industry professionals in volunteerism. Thousands of volunteers have participated in efforts to rehabilitate state attractions in need through Michigan Cares for Tourism.
Livingston Educational Service Agency's Healthy Habits Start Now (HHSN) program helps families understand the importance of eating more fruits and vegetables every day and the benefits of being more physically active.
The Boys & Girls Club of Greater Holland has used a $10,000 grant from Comcast to purchase up-to-date technology. The investment gives the organization a way to offer youth the means to more efficiently do their schoolwork and improve their digital literacy.
Having spent over half of her tenure thus far leading a major university amid a global pandemic, Grand Valley State University President Philomena Mantella, Ph.D. is hard at work implementing and accelerating initiatives that she hopes will create lifelong learners through relationship-based teaching, whether this occurs remotely, or in small groups on campus.
The nonprofit Leaders Advancing and Helping Communities has spent decades providing a variety of services for Dearborn residents, most recently using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education funding to make physical activity more accessible to all.
Thanks to new findings, new funding, and a new focus on mental health, Michigan’s schools are expanding behavioral health services.
BruceMichael Wilson, owner of Groundswell Farm in Zeeland, has as his next endeavor, Dunyun, an enterprise that will train Black youth to be the farmers of a more equitable future.
The Momentum Center has brought together 20 other organizations to form the (Anti) Racism Task Force and will conduct monthly Town Hall Meetings on Race and Racism.
Michael Sandoval was surprised when he received a Holland/Zeeland Promise Scholarship, which meant he could attend MSU without accumulating student debt. He credits summers spent in Upward Bound classes at Hope College with keeping him focused on what he wanted to achieve, academically and in life.
As Flint kids begin online-only schooling, opportunities for physical exercise and nutrition education will be scarce. But a team of Crim Fitness Foundation staffers is working to address that by bringing the Crim’s Nutrition Program (CrimFit) out of the classroom and into families' homes.
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